tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72177813320707465942024-02-07T20:23:38.039+00:00plate spinning mamaHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-78201258837778502552016-08-19T10:31:00.000+01:002016-08-19T10:31:40.541+01:00Harvest day 2016Let me start by saying I'm flabbergasted by this...<br />
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Considering I spent much of June worrying about my bees and even considering feeding them - because how could they possibly be finding enough to eat when it rains for 28 of 30 days? Never mind find a surplus for me to steal!</div>
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I have eight - yes Eight -that's 8 supers to extract!!</div>
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No time for lollygagging - need to get everything clean and ready for a marathon of stickiness...</div>
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There's buckets and a settling tank to wash and dry...</div>
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The kitchen gets covered by old shower curtains and the extractor plugged in...<br />
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Then its just a case of uncapping each frame in turn...</div>
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I can get a small stack of frames waiting for their turn in the extractor...</div>
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I LOVE the actual extraction. Watching the honey start to sparkle on the inside of the tank as it gets flung out of each cell. The air feels almost heavy with the smell of honey. Surely this is the BEST kind of candyfloss?</div>
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Gently does it at first...</div>
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Then with a bit of speed it floods out...<br />
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Meanwhile, at the bottom of the extractor... nothing is happening - this year's honey is super thick!!!</div>
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...and then gradually,.....ever ....so....slowly....it starts to flow through the filters...</div>
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Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-45217289629205216452016-07-29T22:33:00.000+01:002016-07-31T22:34:26.736+01:00The Hive at Kew Gardens"Lets take a day off work and go and go and do something completely different...." 'im indoors said<br />
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"How does looking at 170,000 pieces humming, glowing aluminium grab you?" I asked...<br />
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" Er ...okay...." said the rest of the family....<br />
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So off we went to see <a href="http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/thehive" target="_blank">The Hive at Kew.</a> There is no missing it...<br />
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Underneath it you can connect to the vibrations through the wonder of a wooden coffee stirrer, well its one way to give a human a proboscis!<br />
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I'm just wondering if I can get back there again and see it at sundown...when the lights would really be glowing!!</div>
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15 balls of divine squishy-ness<br />
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They look even better out of the bag...<br />
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Now not being one to do things EXACTLY like the original pattern I decided to follow the colours but not the design....to me this cupcake design was just screaming to be made into a ripple blanket. So a simple row of chains started to ripple up and down. There are <a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/ripple-blanket-know-how.html" target="_blank">terrific instructions here</a> and I followed Lucy's advice to the letter...<br />
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It is all in Dutch - but thanks to good photography on the part of whoever was videoing the crocheter its quite easy to follow...<br />
A row of purple foundation trebles.... then the cake is Tr2,Tr,Tr2 skip 1, the pink icing edging is single crochet into the the back loop only, and the white icing is Tr5 tog...<br />
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Week 2 was a rather sweet granny stitch ....I rather liked making these....</div>
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Week 3 introduced the double triple stitch- which resulted in a rather interesting twisted texture in that leggy middle row...</div>
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Week 4 was a one colour spiral effect - I rather liked the way they came together so I made quite a few of them...</div>
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Week 6 was a rather lovely lacy petal design and being all one colour was super efficient at the use of yarn so I made a few of those ...</div>
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And finally week 7 was this cartwheel / spiders web design that I was slightly dreading as it looked really complicated, but it actually turned out to be really quite easy. Might have to make a few more of these again sometime...</div>
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Eventually the balls of wool got really quite small, but its amazing how you can squeeze a few more hexagons out, until even I had to admit there wasn't enough yarn for any more...</div>
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and after sewing in a few lose ends...</div>
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It was time to spend a happy hour crawling around on the carpet working out how they would all go together...</div>
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Having pinned them into rows, I decided to try out a new way of hooking them together without creating a big ridge on one side...</div>
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I got this technique from <a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/joining-granny-sqaures.html" target="_blank">here on Attic 24</a>, although the instructions are for squares I thought it would be pretty simple to adapt to hexagons, just joining the outside loops -it all looks quite neat...</div>
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In no time at all (well a little over a week) it all came together, so which is better - the right side without the ridge...<br />
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The ridge is definitely smaller than the last time, I might be growing fonder of the ridge side...</div>
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Not long till the final "ta-dah" moment came along...<br />
Right side...<br />
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Warm and bright!</div>
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It took a lot longer than I imagined it would, and I'm a little embarrassed that it wasn't finished in 2015 but it will be on its way to Romania in July so it will be keeping someone warm next winter!</div>
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I was really happy when Granny gave me this magazine...<br />
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As it had this recipe in it....<br />
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Even better I had all the ingredients...<br />
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It all started to melt together quite nicely, so I added the zest and juice of 1 lemon...<br />
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Then came the wierd bit...gradually adding 3 lightly beaten eggs. Each addition really did go quite gloopy and alien like as it joined the main mixture, but frequently stirring, as the instructions said, it gradually came together into a smooth thick paste...<br />
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It is ready when you can "draw your finger across the back of the spoon and it leaves a light line"<br />
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About the only downside to this recipe is that you don't get much curd (recipe says it makes approx 450g) ...<br />
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...and rain.....it rained a lot on the morning we explored the castle...</div>
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There were also the considerably (for the UK) more unusual...like our only Koalas.... although as you can no doubt guess from their day time pose.....they are not the most exciting critters...<br />
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Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-63870883754415665862015-10-18T17:50:00.001+01:002015-10-18T17:50:29.087+01:00Regular honory membershipIts been a full 2 years <a href="http://plate-spinning-mama.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/walsall-quilter-for-one-day-only.html" target="_blank">since I last did this...</a><br />
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Why is it that men can always tighten a wing nut one more turn than I can?</div>
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8am saw us back at the church and hanging quilts... Mum, Betty and I got stuck in with creating the Linus corner...this year with a "washing line" theme...</div>
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And by 4pm the denim tombola was bare - it sold through so quickly I didn't get a photo! the sales table was equally ravaged. The Walsall branch of<a href="http://www.britishpolio.org.uk/" target="_blank"> the Polio Fellowship</a> seemed very happy with their £500 donation and the opportunity to auction a quilt in 2016.<br />
And around 40 quilters packed away the quilts and the wooden frames back to the flatbed truck.<br />
Same time again in 2017?<br />
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<br />Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-49187966949854656002015-09-19T19:42:00.001+01:002015-09-19T20:09:10.321+01:00New Exotic soup recipe...I found this recipe...<br />
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I was a bit surprised to find something quite so exotic in something quite quintessentially English looking. It simply had to be tried...<br />
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So a quick list of the ingredients...<br />
500g unsalted peanuts<br />
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1 large onion<br />
2 cloves garlic<br />
1 red chilli (chopped & seeded)<br />
2 lemongrass stalks<br />
5tbsps fresh ginger<br />
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800g Sweet potatoes<br />
3 large carrots<br />
1 litre vegetable stock<br />
1 400ml tin coconut milk<br />
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Salt, pepper ,fresh corriander and lime wedges.<br />
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So starting with the peanut butter. Pop 500g of peanuts on a tray and in the oven (180'c Gas 4)for 20 minutes, till they go golden brown...<br />
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Whilst they are roasting, chop the spices up small with the onion and cook them in a heavy based pan<br />
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bring to the boil, turn the heat down and let it simmer for 10 -15 minutes until the sweet potatoe is soft. Allow to cool slightly and blitz in a food processor till its as smooth as you want it.<br />
By now the peanuts will have cooled so its time to make peanut butter, its amazingly simple - just blitz them in the food processor...<br />
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I got a tip off that a local charity shop had some good wool ( i.e. reasonably priced and bright colours) for children's blankets so I went and bought a bit...<br />
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I think you can guess what my "one other colour"is going to bee...<br />
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Just can't make my mind up if its going to be on a Dresden plate flower or some hexagon honeycomb. It might have to be both....<br />
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The honeycomb came together really quickly...<br />
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So now I need to decide if it should have one bee or two....</div>
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Just a bit of applique....<br />
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Right ...now for the dresden flower...<br />
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This needs a bigger bee...</div>
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Now I think these bees look better with button eyes...<br />
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But as the blocks might bee sewn together to make a quilt for a child and a button may bee a choking hazard for a small child, I'll just have to embroider a face on to them instead...<br />
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Apparently we are going to be voting for our favourite one at club night - would it be wrong to vote for one of my own?</div>
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That 9 supers, averaging 30llbs each, is about 270 llbs.</div>
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Starting above with dust sheets to protect the kitchen floor and also a tank to settle the harvest in, a couple of trays to uncap the frames in, the extractor and plenty of buckets...</div>
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Now the latest word from local beekeepers who have already harvested this year is that the honey looks particularly dark and thick this year. My bees seem to have fed on the same forage as everyone else's as it was very slow to drain out of the extractor....<br />
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They've been needing to be made into another quilt for some time...but no inspiration came along. Then a conversation with the original quilt's owner lead to the revelation that her mum had a big birthday in 2015, and had always admired the original quilt, was there enough fabric to make a small sister quilt version?</div>
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Of course, as I had a full 15 months to make the quilt between our conversation and the birthday I waited a full 11 months before I got started...</div>
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Finally spotted some inspiration in a magazine and got started in May....</div>
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Better clean the fluff from <a href="http://plate-spinning-mama.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/bee-bunting.html" target="_blank">the bee bunting </a>out of the machine before I get started...<br />
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First to draft the centre "medallion". Baking parchment, pencil, ruler and squared paper are perfect for the job...</div>
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Four pieces together make a medallion centre....<br />
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I toyed with the idea of turning all these tiny scraps into a dinky border...</div>
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But they were just too tiny so I abandoned that adaptation and returned to the pattern.... half square triangles becoming a string of flying geese for the first border to the central medallion...<br />
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It was mid June by the time I made more half square triangles into whirligigs for the second border...<br />
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A further white border and I had to admit this was as big as this quilt was going to get, time was running out...<br />
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I had a fabulous day quilting in my friends garden, I was kept fed and watered (ok cake'd and tea'd)<br />
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You can tell that I was focused on getting this completed as I didn't manage to take any photos of binding the quilt. Let me just confess that binding was made easier by the fact that I completely over estimated the amount I needed for its big sister so actually had enough left over to bind this one without making any new binding. (You can see it rolled up on the top left side of the first photo in this blog)</div>
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before being pinned to the living room carpet for 24 hours to block it straight.</div>
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I understand it was much admired and coo'd over when presented to its new owner. She is a lovely lady and I hope it keeps her toes warm in bed for many more birthdays to come.</div>
Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-23642857183917703102015-08-08T10:55:00.000+01:002015-08-28T19:58:52.443+01:00Shaunientiering - Bristol -Part2I suppose it was inevitable.<br />
But the family enthusiasm for tramping around a city to find interestingly decorated statues of an animated Plasticine icon had been worn out <a href="http://plate-spinning-mama.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/shaunitentiering-london-part1.html" target="_blank">by part 1</a> of our adventure.<br />
So part two of this expedition around Bristol involved just two of us. Thankfully Nicki is very tolerant of my beekeeping enthusiasm so when I said,<br />
"There are four of them decorated in a beekeeping theme"<br />
She said,<br />
"Well lets plot a route to find those four and take in as many of the others as we can on route, we can please ourselves how long it takes and stopping for tea and cake along the way may be compulsory..."<br />
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So off we set...there were 70 in all, we were committed to finding four... here are the ones we found along the way....<br />
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Loving the cut work on this one - showing off the fluttering tea lights inside...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pirate captain</td></tr>
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Just before lunch - we found our first "official" bee themed Shaun....<br />
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After lunch we found these by the historic market and St Stephen's Church..<br />
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Back into the sunshine of the main shopping areas....<br />
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Rather taken by this quilting themed one (must be the hexagons)<br />
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Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com1Bristol, City of Bristol, UK51.454513 -2.587909999999965351.296248 -2.9106334999999652 51.612778 -2.2651864999999654tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-40472665659438487192015-08-02T18:46:00.000+01:002015-08-27T19:07:44.277+01:00I flippin' hate wasps 2It seems like everyone is trying to get in on my honey harvest...<br />
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The cheek of it! - Rotten wasp invading the honey supers as I'm trying to harvest the frames, and some of them settle on the frames for a nice drink of honey...</div>
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And as if that wasn't enough, to add insult to injury, they start predating bees right under my nose. I was sorting out some empty frames that didn't need harvesting, when a rather dazed bee strolled out across the table.... look its there bottom left corner...</div>
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Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-39912643427675336942015-07-17T20:29:00.000+01:002015-08-22T21:10:57.471+01:00Experimental Cherry cakeWe've had a bit of a glut of cherries (again)<br />
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and to be frank...there's only so much cherry conserve and jam one family can eat, so its time for something different. I can't claim any originality for this recipe, <br />
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<i><span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">For the cake:</span></i><span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;"><br />350g jar morello cherries<br />125g unsalted butter, at room temperature<br />125g caster sugar<br />1 teaspoon vanilla extract<br />2-3 drops lemon juice – I always have a jif lemon on standby in the fridge for such things!<br />3 eggs<br />200g self raising flour<br />2 tablespoons milk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">For the glaze:</span></i><span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;"><br />2 tablespoons apricot jam<br />1 tablespoon water</span></div>
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<a href="http://thecakedcrusader.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/morello-cherry-sponge-cake.html">http://thecakedcrusader.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/morello-cherry-sponge-cake.html</a><br />
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When I googled, recipe's with morello cherries. There are LOADS of excellent cakes on this blog..I might have to go back there again. But for now I'm experimenting with swapping a jar of morello cherries for a bowl straight from the tree...<br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Preheat the oven to 180°C/ fan oven 160°C/350°F/ Gas mark 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Line a 20cm springform round tin with baking paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Drain the cherries and leave them to air dry while you make the cake.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Beat in the eggs one at a time; if the mix looks like it might start to curdle add some of the flower.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Briefly beat in the flour and milk. Don’t overbeat it – just go until the batter looks smooth and the ingredients are well combined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Gently place the cherries on top of the batter. Don’t press them down as you don’t want to encourage them to sink!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Bake for approximately 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out cleanly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Which I adapted slightly. So instead of draining the cherries and leaving them to air dry I stirred some sugar into mine after destoning them, just to draw out some of that super sour juice...</span><br />
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I did what I was told with the butter and sugar, beating it together till it was pale , light and whippy....<br />
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I spooned the batter into the cake tin (silicon in my case) and spooned the cherries in,without pressing them down (see I can follow instructions)</div>
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It smelled divine!<br />
And you're gonna have to trust me that it tasted divine too as it <a href="http://quirkyquilters.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/july-18th.html" target="_blank">disappeared so quickly</a> that we didn't get to photograph it!!<br />
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Thank fully we've got sooooo many cherries that I've frozen a load so I shall have the opportunity to make it again..hopefully VERY soon!<br />
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This one was to promote the apiary open day more than we have done previously. It always surprises me that people don't realise there is an apiary in the village, and even those that know there is one there somewhere sometimes struggle to find it. <br />
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So it seems to me we need some signs to point the way. What could be better than some strings of bunting?<br />
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Particularly when I found some superb bee fabric to make them from....<br />
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It couldn't be simpler.....Simply slice into triangles...</div>
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Sew the triangles together right sides together , turn them right side out and press....<br />
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Try not to freak out that the pile is half as high as the iron....</div>
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It does seem a bit grim, I'll grant you that. But the bees are doing the colony a favour, dead bodies don't pile up in the hive and foragers are not distracted from important foraging work by needing to keep clearing out the dead bees before they start to rot and spread disease through the colony.</div>
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I've been watching birds come and clear up the corpses - I guess they are a crunchy candy snack for passing Magpies and Robins. But some other critters are learning about the snack bar, and some of them are especially not welcome...</div>
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Its like a macro level Serengeti down there. Wasps are patrolling the edges of the dandelion leaves...</div>
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Wrestling the dying bees to the ground...grabbing them from behind so the bee can not sting them...</div>
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Finally flying off with the abdomen...</div>
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Making beeswax tea light sized candles...<br />
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Gather all the tools for the job...beeswax, tea lights, a length of wick, scissors, and wick retainers...<br />
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Cut lots of small wicks - one per candle...</div>
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Thread them through the wicks retainers and squish shut to hold the wick with pliers....</div>
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Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-30935453289341632402015-06-17T08:00:00.000+01:002015-07-04T21:04:25.997+01:00Rail stations and raptors....Shhh! don't tell anyone - but I'm a bit of a dino geek at heart.<br />
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They were fab,they were in charge and then they weren't. It makes for great drama.... and a great blockbuster movie or two now....<br />
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To promote the movie opening in the UK, the promoters took over Waterloo station... can you see what they did?<br />
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Firstly crochet keyring ones, from this <a href="http://bunnymummy-jacquie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/easy-crochet-owl-tutorial.html" target="_blank">pattern by Bunny Mummy </a><br />
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Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-19228193420306381282015-06-01T20:31:00.000+01:002015-08-23T20:33:07.443+01:00New labelsI'm thrilled to pieces to have a harvest of spring honey!!<br />
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It doesn't, and won't happen every year that the bees manage to evaporate enough water out of spring nectar before the end of May for the nectar to actually become honey. But I've struck gold this year.<br />
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Don't they look superb!</div>
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<br />Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16536636103478282069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217781332070746594.post-9837295479943701452015-05-27T21:14:00.000+01:002015-08-22T21:41:35.608+01:00Beekeeping ApprenticeI love it when someone wants to know more about beekeeping. I can bore for England when it comes to talking about beekeeping, and I LOVE it even more when someone wants to come and look inside a hive.... and I LOVE IT BIG TIME when that person is young and strong and prepared to do some work...but they've gotta get suited up!!<br />
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I can't believe my luck! An apprentice to help with spring harvest! Mum came too and took the photos...even getting her this far was a big achievement as she is distinctly skittish about the idea of being close to bees...</div>
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So I thought we's start on the smallest colony...a puff of smoke and a quick demo from me...</div>
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It must be the fearlessness of youth...but he was straight in there and looking for the queen...<br />
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Now, I've a confession to make.<br />
I'd warned Jenny that she ran the risk of him enjoying himself so much that they wouldn't be halfway home before she'd get the predictable question..."Mum, can we get some bees?"<br />
I was wrong....<br />
We were half way through the first hive!!!<br />
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It seems I've found someone who is nearly as happy as I am to have a jar of honey in his hands. Clearly he'll be graduating from apprentice beekeeper pretty quickly!</div>
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So I was completely taken aback to walk down the garden and find this in the fruit cage...<br />
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So that's six. Six times the work, six times the fun.....I wonder if it might also be six times the honey?</div>
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from several angles across the bridge....</div>
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Gotta walk round this curve...all the way back to pretty much under that tower...</div>
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Wave to the Tate....peaking out from the other side....</div>
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Halfway there..... bye bye Westminster & Lambeth bridge...</div>
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Helo Vauxhall..... you looked prettier in the sun first thing this morning!</div>
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Time to get back on the train ...</div>
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mmmmm maybe I'll get a bus next time...</div>
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